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development of decorative glassware

…together with the luxury “Graal” glass with internal stained decoration, which had been rapidly developed under Gate’s inspiration at Orrefors. It was, however, engraved glasswork, chiefly that designed by Gate and Hald at Orrefors, on which the reputation of Swedish glass was established in the 1920s and particularly at…

relation to Orrefors glass

One of their innovations was Graal glass, in which coloured relief decorations were encased in a layer of colourless, transparent crystal to produce a smooth surface. Orrefors art glass is characterized by smooth, clean lines of brilliant crystal, especially suggestive of frozen liquid. Orrefors glassware is noted for its ornamentation,…